Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/207



One ought to take on hym elf to doo a thynge / whiche is peryllous withoute he fele hym elf trong ynouȝ to doo hit / As reherceth this Fable / Of an Egle / whiche fleynge took a lambe / wherof the Rauen hadde grete enuye wherfor vpon another tyme as / the ayd rauen awe a grete herd of heep / by his grete enuy & pryde & by his grete oultrage decended on them / And by uche fachon and manere mote a wether that his clowes abode to the flyes of hit / In oo moche that he coude not flee awey / The heep herd thenne came and brake and toke his wynges from hym / And after bare hym to his children to playe them with / And demaunded of hym / what byrd he was / And the Rauen anuerd to hym / I uppoed to haue ben an Egle / And by my ouerwenynge I wende to haue take a lambe / as the egle dyd / but now I knowe wel that I am a Rauen / wherfore the feble ought not in no wye to compare

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